YCL calls on the Department of Basic Education not to publish matric results in newspapers

December 30, 2012 

YCL calls on the Department of Basic Education not to publish matric results in newspapers 

The Young Communist League of South Africa [uFasimba] remains steadfast in its call to the Department of Basic Education to bring to an end the wrongful practice of publishing matric results of individual learners in newspapers.

As the YCLSA, we believe that learner performance results are a confidential matter between the learner and the department, and can only be revealed by or with the consent of the learner. 

Learners do not write examinations through newspapers, but through schools and therefore should and can get their results from school instead of newspapers. We believe that in publishing the results, the only people that benefit the most are the private owners and shareholders of newspapers through the profits they make from sky-rocketing sales driven by the results.

The publication of leaner results in newspapers has other negative social implications, resulting in some learners reacting in a manner they would ordinarily not adopt were the results not published in newspapers. 

Statement issued by Khaya Xaba, YCLSA National Spokesperson, December 30 2012

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